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Mother Quotes: “Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.” — Alice Walker

401. “Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”

— Alice Walker

Mother Quotes: “I’ve raced on all seven continents at least twice. I’ve probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I’m most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.” — Dean Karnazes

402. “I’ve raced on all seven continents at least twice. I’ve probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I’m most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.”

— Dean Karnazes

Mother Quotes: “I’m telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn’t kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!” — Marie Lu

403. “I’m telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn’t kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!”

Mother Quotes: “Mothers and daughters are part of each other’s consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.” — Edith Wharton

404. “Mothers and daughters are part of each other’s consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.”

— Edith Wharton

Mother Quotes: “Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.” — Frank McCourt

405. “Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.”

— Frank McCourt

Mother Quotes: “In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.” — Barack Obama

406. “In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.”

— Barack Obama

Mother Quotes: “Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.” — Cheryl Strayed

407. “Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Mother Quotes: “That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. “Save them for my funeral,” I’d said.” — Sylvia Plath

408. “That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. “Save them for my funeral,” I’d said.”

— Sylvia Plath

Mother Quotes: “My mother’s death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I’ve grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don’t exist materially.” — Cheryl Strayed

409. “My mother’s death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I’ve grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don’t exist materially.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Mother Quotes: “I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.” — Groucho Marx

410. “I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.”

— Groucho Marx

Mother Quotes: “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.” — Jane Austen

411. “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

— Jane Austen

Mother Quotes: “I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.” — Mindy Kaling

412. “I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”

— Mindy Kaling

Mother Quotes: “If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.” — Louise Hay

413. “If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.”

Mother Quotes: “I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.” — Louis Tomlinson

414. “I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.”

— Louis Tomlinson

Mother Quotes: “There was no room in God’s army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God’s will. Let the church cry amen to this!” — James Baldwin

415. “There was no room in God’s army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God’s will. Let the church cry amen to this!”

— James Baldwin

Mother Quotes: “A mother’s pride, a father’s joy.” — Walter Scott

416. “A mother’s pride, a father’s joy.”

— Walter Scott

Mother Quotes: “Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.” — Benjamin Disraeli

417. “Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Mother Quotes: “How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother’s lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.” — John Milton

418. “How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother’s lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”

— John Milton

Mother Quotes: “You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.” — Criss Jami

419. “You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”

Mother Quotes: “Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” — Erich Fromm

420. “Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”

— Erich Fromm

Mother Quotes: “We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.” — Betty Friedan

421. “We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.”

— Betty Friedan

Mother Quotes: “Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.” — Patrick Ness

422. “Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.”

— Patrick Ness

Mother Quotes: “The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.” — David Jeremiah

423. “The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.”

— David Jeremiah

Mother Quotes: “Clary’s mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.” — Cassandra Clare

424. “Clary’s mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.”

— Cassandra Clare

Mother Quotes: “Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.” — Anne Carson

425. “Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.”

— Anne Carson

Mother Quotes: “If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s the father of cooperation. And we’re cooperating like never before.” — John Ashcroft

426. “If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s the father of cooperation. And we’re cooperating like never before.”

— John Ashcroft

Mother Quotes: “My name is Sabastian. I had a father, but he is dead. I had a mother, but she is dead to me. I have a brother, and I will Bind him to me. I have a sister, and I will teach her to love me. My name is Sabastain, and I am going to burn down the world.” — Cassandra Clare

427. “My name is Sabastian. I had a father, but he is dead. I had a mother, but she is dead to me. I have a brother, and I will Bind him to me. I have a sister, and I will teach her to love me. My name is Sabastain, and I am going to burn down the world.”

— Cassandra Clare

Mother Quotes: “Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.” — Rick Riordan

428. “Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.”

— Rick Riordan

Mother Quotes: “A mother’s nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us.” — M. Russell Ballard

429. “A mother’s nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us.”

— M. Russell Ballard

Mother Quotes: “Mothers are all slightly insane.” — J.D. Salinger

430. “Mothers are all slightly insane.”

— J.D. Salinger

Mother Quotes: “Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.” — Rita Mae Brown

431. “Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.”

— Rita Mae Brown

Mother Quotes: “A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.” — W.H. Auden

432. “A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

Mother Quotes: “The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.” — John Grisham

433. “The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.”

— John Grisham

Mother Quotes: “In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.” — Louis de Bernières

434. “In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.”

— Louis de Bernières

Mother Quotes: “The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” — Arianna Huffington

435. “The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.”

— Arianna Huffington

Mother Quotes: “Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother’s affection without needing any demonstration.” — Mahatma Gandhi

436. “Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother’s affection without needing any demonstration.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mother Quotes: “Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather

437. “Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

— William Feather

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438. “Don’t call me an icon. I’m just a mother trying to help.”

— Princess Diana

Mother Quotes: “And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I’m going to make my daughter proud.” — Nicole Kidman

439. “And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I’m going to make my daughter proud.”

— Nicole Kidman

Mother Quotes: “If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they’ve got – and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.” — Ruth Bell Graham

440. “If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they’ve got – and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.”

— Ruth Bell Graham

Mother Quotes: “I think there’s a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. It kills girls inside when they think they’re letting their mothers down.” — Drew Barrymore

441. “I think there’s a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. It kills girls inside when they think they’re letting their mothers down.”

— Drew Barrymore

Mother Quotes: “My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.” — Demi Lovato

442. “My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.”

— Demi Lovato

Mother Quotes: “I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.” — Elvis Presley

443. “I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.”

— Elvis Presley

Mother Quotes: “On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.” — Aeschylus

444. “On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.”

Mother Quotes: “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.” — Bernie Mcgill

445. “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”

— Bernie Mcgill

Mother Quotes: “I cry secretly. I don’t really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it’s not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.” — Angelina Jolie

446. “I cry secretly. I don’t really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it’s not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.”

— Angelina Jolie

Mother Quotes: “The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.” — Billy Graham

447. “The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.”

— Billy Graham

Mother Quotes: “My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.” — Madonna

448. “My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.”

Mother Quotes: “Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.” — Erma Bombeck

449. “Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.”

— Erma Bombeck

Mother Quotes: “A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother’s heart.” — William Wordsworth

450. “A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother’s heart.”

— William Wordsworth

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